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-l river, See advertisement.
The Mapnolia brought up a thousand
of wheat yesterday.
O w ins to sickness and the “Fourth”
among the Courier printers yesterday,
tl,is morning’s
..mount of reading matter.
issue lacks its usual
Mrs. Partington isn’t at all surprised
to In ar that the Ottoman is the seat of
dissatisfaction. Give her a good old-
f.i-Iiioned sofa if you want to sit like
Christian.
It v.iil he more tolerable,” says the
I •.:,. a Ob« rrrr, speaking of the retribu-
ji,,n ,,j- ].SaO, “for Sodom and Gomorrah,
; .i,,,t day than for the promoters and
... Is of the conspiracy.”
One hundred years ago to-day, if Grant
laid l.ecn caught ill I,on<ion, lie would
p..,.,. !„ i n hanged as a rebel.—Couricr-
J ’ , | liir “ftmt/i.”
What a v( ry, very great pity it isn’t
"one linn ire ! years ago to-day.”
p,,i i;’ii ok Jrr.v Fires.— It is said
that New York had ninety-three fires
last Fourth . f July, all from fireworks,
-pp,. x,n- Vorl: Her ah! remarks that
Fourth of July celebrations here cost
more than the whole Revolutionary
war.
].’if tv Jewish houses in Cincinnati, rep*
rcsentim.' an airurciratc of over 810,000,-
tiui) of capital, have published a card in
the Cincinnati papers pledging them-
.dvrs t" entertain in business relations
whatever with the house of A. T. Stew
art ,t Co. Among them are several
lnavy clothing houses.
Comptroller General Goldsmith, as
wo- learn iiom the Gon.</.V»h'.m,estimates
that the per diem of the members of
the Convention will be. So, and that
ige, stationery, clerical service,etc.,
will make the Convention cost about
?|._>t,ii k. .lay which would make the
td,Ini»i last about twenty days.
It mnst have been rough on Grant
ye.-ter.iay to have to stand “at the foot
of the throne.” What Ulysses always
wanted was to get right on that high-
toned oh j e rt.—('ouricr-JtoumaL
We doubt if Grant ever had a desire
t" ■■« fright cn anything, judging by his
sued ps in getting wrong on everything.
The ship “Governor Morton” took
hr. and sunk in the southwest pass of
die Mississippi river yesterday'.—Ex-
M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR
“WISDOM, JUSTICE .AETR MODERATION.’
TWO DOLLAB&PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 45
The man, Governor Morton, will
some o' these days” reverse, this order:
lie will first sink and then take fire in
certain place unmentionable to polite
Tito Few York Aim says it is beyond
doubt that twenty of the best shots in
ol. Berdan’s crops of sharpshooters
under the leadership of Joe Ketch, the
noted Texan rifleman, have joined the
ilc.mian army, and are now on the
Ikiaube. Berdan’s sharpshooters were
brganized in June, 1S51, and disbanded
after a service of four years and six
(months.
Boa
l- ind that the officers in the
hited States Army' arc mostly North-
rn men. and that they will have to be
asocial equality with Flipper, the
■■'i"r.d West Pointer just graduated,
1 ’! tin-“Statesmanship”of Blaine
- -hewn in the following extract from
• " //• will be understood :
' ■■''•nator Blaine, in the course of a
'"t.vers.'ition last night, thought the ca-
n r of Flipper would be to go South
■ad In come a leader of his race. He
euld in that way become famous and
t"tld accomplish much good for the
toiletry."
A correspondent of the Columbus
writing from Marietta, relates,
"nnng other reminiscences of the war,
die following :
1 'n vomit r hill where the military in
stitute stood, some gallant scenes took
?Iuce. Sixty cadets—Rebels, everyone
)> tin in—left suddenly for “the front.”
I iic oldest was 122, the youngest fifteen
\ curious anomally occurred : We
“ ■ r.■ all expelled, but old Prof. Mag
i' t. who, as a professor, was forced to
id vise our expulsion in accordance
G‘h the “rules and regulations,” met
15 at the depot and said :
“ Good-bye, boys, God bless you! If
1 bad a son here, I would tell him to get
' 7"' i ■ "I nan' and join you /”
s uuc new process for finding the
“yal heart will have to be adopted by
le Radical party. .The influence of
■h’ Woody shirt is one of the things
bat were, and, as will be seen from the
aclov.in/, the magic effect of bull-doz-
lets passed away:
Two negro Postmasters of Feliciana
pari.-b. Hula and Chapman, were pre-
pilcd upon to leave the State, so that
|t might bo asserted that they were
Bmveil from their offices by force. The
fegroes made themselves scarce, and a
•st amount of sympathy was express-
id for these much persecuted appoint-
es of Mr. Hays by the Northern press.
Itneral George A. Sheridan, special
gent of the Post office Department,
ind himself a former waver of the
ploody' shirt, wag lately sent down
jhere to investigate the matter. He re-
orts that there is nothing in it, and
j •' the poor bulldozed Africans can
1 turn in safety whenever they see fit
1° do so. Moreover, he himself turns
iJMnst them now, and recommends
j air dismissal from office for incompe-
f 1 ' c y. So much for Hayes’ civil 8er-
| lce ref °rm policy in Louisiana.
JUDGE BLACK ON THE CONSPIRA
TORS. ....
In the North American Review for July
Judge Jeremiah S. Black appears as the
contributor of an article entitled “The
Electoral Conspiracy,” which is by all
odds the most complete, eloquent and
scathing exposure that has yet been made
of the fraud by which Rutherford B,
Hayes was foisted into, the Presidential
chair. We regret that our space will not
permit us to reprint it. The following
concluding paragraphs of this article;
hewever, will give our readers some idea
of the “with-gloves-off” style in which
Judge Black handles the conspirators
whose names will ever be coupled with
nfamy on the pages of American history.
Says this distinguished jurist:
“If the majority \»f that
could but have realized their responsibil
ity to God and man; if they could only
have understood that in a' free country
liberty and lawj’are" inseparable, they
would have been enrolled among our
greatest benefactors, for they would have
added strength and grandeur to our in
stitutions. But they could not come up
to the height of the great subject. Party
passion so benumbed their faculties that
a fundamental right stems nothing to
them when it came in conflict with some
argument supported by artificial reason-
ins, and drawn from the supposed analo
gies of technical procedure. The Com
stitution was, in tlieir judgment, out
weighed by a void statute and the action
of a corrupt Returning Board.
“Let these things be remembered by
our children’s children; and if the friends
of free government shall ever again have
such a contest, let them take care how
they leave the decision of it to alrikunal
like that wIiiHh betrayed the nation by
enthroning the Great Fraud of 387(5,
THE itEPUBLICAN HOUSE INI) HS
OCCUPANT.
Aristotle once said that the man who
lives in a house knows its worth far
better than the builder. He pereeives
its defects and discomforts by inhabi
tation alone. The House as an archi
tectural design may have looked very
well,but thejudge of the value oftiiestru-
cturo is he who has resided in it. • He
knows, by trial, where changes should
be made. The Republicans built d
house for Mr. Hayes and put him in it,
And after living in it for awhile -Mr.
Hayes has been telling the builders of
some defects in the mansion : a smoky
chimney, a defective lock and poor
construction all around. The house
was really built of rotten material.
We are glad the occupant is complain
ing. We hope he will go on and have
it completely remodelled. Even its
very foundations are shaky. Let Mr.
Hayes have it reconstructed from cor
ner-stone to turret. Let him have a
new roof that will keep out the rain,
and a foundation on rock so when the
storms shall come, that house shall
stand—shall stand for always, and
shelter future occupants for years and
years to come.
WAR NEWS.
The crisis which Europe has been
awaiting, namely, the cressing of the
Danube, has been passed without a
struggle. The whole Russian left is in
force near Hirsova, and all their troops
between Kalanash and Ismail have
crossed the Danube and driven the
Turks to what they call their second
line of defence, at Kustenlje and the
Roman Walls.
The Turkish successes in Asia Minor
are attributed to the slowness of the
Russian advance, which created confi
dence in their enemy and gave oppor
tunity for making preparations for the
defence of the Araxes valley where the
roads from Kars and Bayazid join.
The Turks have succeded in unmask
ing the Russian batteries at Oltenitza
by means of eight boats loaded with
dummy soldiers. When the fleet
reached mid stream it drew the fire of
a thousand rifles, and many canon from
the Russian earth works.
The English and French war critics
are busy with notes on the present sit
uation, and it appears evident from the
tenor of their criticisms that they con
sider the Turkish case hopeless, and
the bird cooked.
Prof. Baird, the United States Com
missioner of Fish and Fisheries, has
been investigating thesubject of the im
portation of carp from Germany.
These fish have been found suitable for
Southern waters, and arrangements
have been made to distribute them in
the South. The carp is found exten
sively in the fresh-water lakes and
streams of Europe, and is very prolific.
They prefer quiet waters, with soft or
muddy bottoms, and spawn in May or
June. Their size varies from half a foot
to two and a half feet, and they weigh
from one to eighteen pounds. A num
ber of carp were recently brought from
Germany and placed in the ponds;of
the Maryland Fish Ccmtnison, and
more are to arrive shortly. They are
considered a most excellent food fish,
and their introduction into Southern
waters is most desirable.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: It is
understood that.preparations are mak-
ing for a grand gubernatorial excursion,
iff which all the executives of aU the
States-will unite for an interchange of
official courtesies and personal exami
nation of the great commercial -alnd
manufacturing centres. . The three
leading points to be waited are Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, the party
remaining in each city three days.
Pennsylvania Correspondence
The New Parly Dodge—Its Objects and
Probable Fate—Miscellaneous—Weather,
Crops, Etc.
Ligonier Valley, Pa., 1
June 28,1877. j
2b the Editor of the Courier:
The “New Party” movement is the
theme for political discussion up this way
at present. The movement was rendered
necessary by the demise of the Radical
organization, which after the late Presi
dential election, contained just about a
sufficient number of survivers to inaugu
rate such a movement. The “New Party,”
if it is organized at all, will contain all
the political soreheads, renegades, apos
tates, blatherskites and scalawags gener
ally, in the country, it will ne tea Dy
GiuCclJ, Morton and Blaine, or men still
worse, if they can be found. It is the
dernier resort of a political party strug
gling in the throes of political death, to
survive, if possible, four years longer.
It will fail. History may repeat itself,
but the Radical party never will. The
whole animal kingdom, from man down,
may reproduce itself, but a party that has
died of its own corruption never can. An
effort may be made to revive the old
Whig party, but that is “too thin.” The
circumstances which occasioned the ne
cessity for the organization of that party
have long since passed away; hence that
party could be of no use. Some other
name may he assumed, but what are
names? The Radical party may as well
set its political house in order and tamely
submit to its fate, for die it must. That
party is responsible for every calamity
that has ever befallen us as a nation. Its
corrupt, bloody, revolutionary and incen
diary career, for the last sixteen years,
will never be forgotten. The “New
Party” movement has but one object in
view that deserves the name, and that is,
party success in the next race for the
Presidency. There, may be other minor
objects in view, but all of these resolve
themselves into an effort to win the prize
in.38SO. Had even three of four of the
State governments of the South been in
the hands of the Radical party, the “New
Party” dodge would not have been so
necessary; for, with two Southern States,
Joe Bradley, and a certain amount of
perjury and money, the last race for the
Presidency was won. Now, however, the
case is somewhat different. The State
governments of the South are in the
hands of the Democratic party, where
they will be likely to. remain for some
time to come. The Democratic party is
nervr in a position to administer over
whelming defeat to whatever may oppose
it in 1880. The South will be as “solid”
as a block of adamant, and the Demo
cratic party here will be with her. No
new party dodge will be likely to affect
the people of the South. They are now
rid of carpet-bag rule, and we believe
they know their interests well enough
to remain so. The fate, therefore, of the
new party movement is already dead.
We will not attempt to say that a new
party will not be organized, for it may
be done; but we will say that it will
never win, a new party composed of the
riff-raff of old ones can neyer succed in
this country.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A real genuine sensation has been
produced in this region of late by the
announcement that Ben Hill, of Geor
gia,.might be one of the candidates for
ntIn-1880. Wenan see no rea
son vfhy Mi. Hill would not be an
available candidate.' He is unques
tionably one of the great men of the
nation._ He represents the best talent
of the South, and in that respect is su
perior perhaps to any man in this sec
tion. Wej have been emphatically a
Hill man ever since he so soundly
flayed Jim Blaine for slandering the
people of the South during the war.
He is a patriot, a statesman, and a gen
tleman. Hurrah for Hill! Long may
ho wave, is our prayer.
The Radical leaders here are begin-
ing to show their teeth at Hayes in
good old fashioned style. His South
ern policy is too Btrong a dose for them
to swallow. We are not at all disap
pointed, inasmuch as we expected some
thing of that kind—he has Andy John-
soned the party. “Bully for Hayes. 1 '
We now believe in the doctrine that
the Lerd sometimes chooses evil instru
ments with which to accomplish good.
Justice may be delayed for a season,
but it is morally certain to overtake the
wicked at last
WEATHER, CROrS AC.
The weather here is splendid. We
are having an abundance of rain. The
temperature ranges from 80° to 90°.
The wheat crop is heavy; we will be
gin to cut abont the 1st of July. The
oats are very heavy.. The hay wili be
a. good crop. The corn hardly average
and the potatoes extra. Such seem to
be our proapects here. More anon.
Key-Stone.
The Dethroned Sultan.
Murad, dethroned Sultan lives, a
tflofstoy man, in a place: on iSeragtio
Point His mother is constantly by his
side. She tastes his food before it
touches his lips and she allows no one
to approach him until she knows the
object of their visit His beautiful
daughter Blanche the Circassian whom
he had reared up to an Enropean edu
cation in the family of his private phy.
sician is with him also. As soon as
he was calldd to the throne he had a
part of the harem fitted up for her ex
clusive use in a style of the most lux
urious splendor and expense- Her
apartment, whose embellishments cost
neatly 100,000 francs was just finished
as Murad was forced to abdicate.
Georgiacs.
There will he 194 delegates in the
Convention.
_ Only two editors are in the Constitu
tional Convention.
Bishop Pierce will preach the com
mencement sermon of the University of
Georgia on the first Sunday in August.
A gentleman planting near Savannah
sold a short time since his crop of cucum
bers on the vice, on three acres of land,
for 81,250 cash.
■ Among other curiosities cf Oglethorpe
county t he Echo reports a cream color
ed crow, and a member of the Smith
family who is so bashful that his sweet
heart has to sit on his knoe when he
visits her to keep him from running
away.
me wonder of the age has been uu
covered in Thomas county. He is for
ty years old and has never taken
chew of tobacco,smoked a cigar,taken a
drink of whisky, sworn an oath. What
a happy man he will be when he first
learns the real merits of cold water—
say about 4 A. M-, after, a first-class
drunk.
The Chronicle & Constitutionalist says:
The Atlanta Constitution is engaged
in writing up the biographies of the
delegates to the Constitutional Conven
tion. How to praise each one of the
immortal one hundred and ninety
enough without exausting the stock of
adjectives is what is worrying the
“eleven able.”
A young gentleman of Perry went up
to Macon the other day to attend the ex
ercises of the Wesleyan Female College,
but report says he catered to the wants of
one young lady almost exclusively.
While thns enjoying himself he hired a
horse and buggy to take the young lady
to ride,hut unfortunately,she was engaged
for the time. His disappointment knew
no bounds, and in an unguarded moment
he let it become known that the 82 use
lessly spent was quite an item added to
the missed pleasure. He returned home,
and by next mail received a neat little
note from Macon. The young lady ex
pressed her sorrow at his recent disap
pointment, and enclosed a two-dollar bill
to replace the one he had paid for hire
of the horse and buggy.
A Newton county negro, fclictitously
named Billy White, is reported by the
Enterprise as having recently performed
the following feats:
“To begin with: he raised four sacks
of guano, 300 lbs to each sack, at once;
lifting one in each, hand, one in his teeth,
and one on his back. The guano, about
900 lbs, was made a present to him for his
succe s. He is also said to have lifted
Judge Summers with his teeth by a belt
around the waist The Judge, we sup
pose, is one of the heaviest men in the:
county. f
“At another time this Hercules caught
a steer by the foroffeg and horn, and
broke his neck by throwing him over his
head. He then butchered him, shoulder
ed half of him, and out-ruu anybody on
the ground to the fire where they were
cooking.
We clip the following from the Knox
ville (Tenn.) Tribune. Who is tho un
fortunate woman ? “We are informed of
the sad death of an unfortunate woman,
whose earthly career terminated Friday
night, perhaps at her own hands. By
request, and for prndential reasons, the
name of the unfortunate girl is, for the
present, withheld from the public.
“About twenty months since, the young
woman, with her father and mother,
came here from Georgia, since which
time the father has been employed at his
trade.
“But a few days since it became known
that the daughter was cncicnte, and on
Monday night at 9 o’clock she gave birth
to a child. Three hours later and the
young mother was a corpse. Her remains
were buried yesterday in the County Cem
etery. Rumor states that the unfortunate
;irl becoming tired of life and deserted
)y the heartless author of her ruin, ad-
ministed to herself poison, and now fills
the grave of a suicide.
“The sad occurrence carries with it its
own moral lesson—a sad lesson from real
life, from which the world would gladly
turn away and leave veiled forever in
obscurity.”
sbn Davis i were recently destroyed by
S The Federal troops were pressing
Javis so hard during his retreat
word that he was compelled to
the archives witii Col. Young at
l The latter had carefully pre
served them, and was abont to send
t to the Southern Historical Socie-
Richmond when they were de
li Personal Jottings.
The Springfield Republican nominates
Wade Hampton and Fred Douglass for
President and Vice-President in 1880,
A cable despatch from London an
nounces the death of Lady Stirling Max-
Well, better known as the Hon. Mrs. Nor
ton. £
, S. S. Cox, of New York, was
■ 'W'Zr’q? Tennessee Press Associa-
tnce, reA'a recent meeting at
*5 tM r ^me^nffifrdThursdayin
JOW- TbSo
t he luckiest minister in New York is
Reid Mr. Potter, of Grace Church. He
goes to Europe every year, owns a New
port residence, has a salary of 810,000,
and rarely gets less than S100 for marry
ing the bon ton.
Lieutenant Governor Dosheimer, of
New York, in a card to the New York
Sun, states that it is within his personal
knowledge that Mr. Tilden was not in
favor of the electoral commission. Mr.
Dorsheimer is an intimate peisonal and
political friend of Mr. Tilden.
Joseph Seligman is a German. He
landed at New York without a penny,
and earned his first money by carrying a
valise up the wharf. He was a nowsboy
and then a peddler. One step l«d to an
other. He is now a member of the Syn
dicate), Vice-President of the Union
League Club, a particular friend of
Grant, a millionaire, and “a bigger man
than old Hilton.”
Strange Freak of a Hen.
Colombo* Times.]
The Lincoln county correspondent of
the Thomson Journal tells this vinegary
story: Mr. H. P. Mercier, of this county,
has a hen which, on last Friday laid an
egg with the name of “E. Gresham”
General News Items.
Kansas City!cans ratsjand sliip'.them
to China.
Women can practice law in Minneso
ta, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The bee product of the United States
is valued at 816,000,000 per annum.
Mark Twain is 42 and has cleared
850,000 from his books and lectures.
“John, what is tho chief branch of edu
cation in your school?" “Willow
branch, sir; Master’s used up nearly a
whole tree.”
' “My son, remember that your char
acter ought to shine brighter than
your boots.” “Suppose I blacken it,
then, father?”
Gen. D. H. Hill, of North Carolina,
has been elected President of the In
dustrial University, located at Fayette
ville, Arkansas.
A Boston young woman whose prop
erty amounts to 860,000 has maried a
pretty whom she met in the dinner-
room of the Russel House, MontreaL
Carolina and Georgia gold mines
have yield since their dicovery S19.069,-
226 28. “There's millions in them;”
but hitherto their development has been
neglected.
At a sale of racing stock in England
recently Beverol colts brought from 86,-
000 to 810,000 each and the sixteen
years old stallion “Scottish Chief’ was
sold for 842,000, in gold.
Baron James Rothchild is quoted
thus: “When we are poor and igno
rant we are Jews; when we are well-to-
do we become Israelites; when we ore
rich and;inflnential we are called He
brews.”
“Rubin,” shouted Mrs. Tooidles to
her husband, who was going out of the
gate, “bring me fiye cents worth of
Bnnff when you come.” “Snuff 1 Mrs.
Toodles, snuff I” he ejaculated, as he
paused with his hand on the latch.
“No, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are
too harito admit of such extravagance;
you must tickle your nose with a straw
when you want to sneeze.”
Twenty-seven boxes of Confederate
archives left at Union S. C n by Jeffer-
PoliticalJDots.
rSanction for the Electoral Commis
sion can be found in Holy Writ, as fol
lows: “Give a portion to seven and also
to eight; for thou knowest not what
evil Bhall be upon the earth.”—Eccle
siastes, xi chap., 2d v.
Chief among the competitors for the
nocratic n omination in New York
United States Senator are Judge
rch, Lieut-Goy. Hoffman. Amoug
RepublicanSjConrse.Conkling stands
foremost: but it is hinted by the know-
oncs thatSecretary Evarts is anxiouB
iy himself in the Senate, while it is
Utmost positively known that ex-Gov.
Morgan and ex-Senator Felton are strip
ping for tho fight.
would seem from the Washington
dispatches of yesterday, that the grand
jaijwin New Orleans have found iudict-
against Wells and Anderson for
forgery. Mr. Hayes is mad about it
because he was assured the Foster-Mat
thews agreement would put an end to
all such matters, and they would rest
where he thought they were buried.
No doubt too, he feels somewhat inse
cure to his own seat for Wells and An
derson may make some very dirty re
velations of rascality by which Mr.
Hayes has profited. To save them
selves they may produce the papers
which have not yet come to light, and
that is just what is desire.—Columbus
Enquirer.
Ready-Made Speeches.
Prom tho London Punch.]
Ex-President Grant a few days since
in returning thanks for his health at a
Manchester banquet, admitted that he
liked his speeches like his drinks—
short and strong, but that he hated the
work of talking even under these con
ditions;
Mr. Punch, always anxious to serve
an illustrious visitor begs to present his
General with a few outline ortations
that may be useful to him. He trusts
he will appreciate the spice of local
color he has tried to throw in to take
off the air of preparation, and give an
extempore and offhand style to the
General’s utterances.
Gentleman: It is - the custom to lasso
royal personages aud other distinguish
ed visitors with a string of platitudes
and pomposities drawn up by the
Town Clerk or Recorder, where there
is one, and filing at the head of the ob
ject of coporate civility. I can’t escape,
and I don’t complain. When in Rome
do as Rome does. I have. You have
slicked me down. I have stood quiet
to be slicked down. Thanks. Now
you can get our your red gowns and
big talk, and re-enter the region of ra
tional remark, and the coat, vest and
pants of private life.
My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen: I
know you like this big place of yours
to be called “the first city of the world.”
According to usage, I beg to declare
TiOndon some pumpkins in the way of
bigness, business and bunkum. You
have given me a lot of rights which I
don’t understand and which I guess
you never expect me to exercise. You
mean it civilly, and I thank you. And
now, gentlemen (with my Lord Mayor’s
permission), we will turn to for a big
dinner and a big drink in genuine Mad
ison Honse style, though I guess you
can’t cut out DelmoDico’s.
Mr. Chairman and Directors: Yon
have shown me an almighty big green
house, some considerable plaster casts
aud an allfired handsome garden, and
I don’t know which I conclude to like
best, your water-works or fire-works
fixings. On the other hand, I have
shown myself on yonr account to a big
crowd of shilling public I trust (as I un
derstand on all hands that your estab
lishment is deserving of more snpport
than it gets) that the money taken at
the doors on this interesting occasion
will more than defray expenses, and
that the result of this and similar na
tional and patriotic ovation may be
sensibly felt In your dividends.
Ladies and gentleman: Yon have
come to see me with the view of trot
ting ont your various hobbies. I am
used to that sort of a thing “at home.
I guess you’d rather talk youselves
than listen to me. I’m quite agreeable
So fire away and I trust your orations
will ba reported to yonr entire satis
faction in to-morrow’s papers.
A precocious youngster has found out
that twins were made so that cannibals
may eat philopenas.
ay (Saturday) she laid another witii the
name of “Mamie” on it The last is the
name of one of Mr. Meitner's little dangh-
ters, who is a scholar in Mr. Gresham’s
school. A gentleman, who saw one of
the eggs, says there is no fiction abont the
statement; that it is true. We cannot
account for this freak of nature; unless
the hen had decided to vote for Mr.
Gresham for conventional delegate.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Editors Times—The above extract re
minds one of an incide_qk.lji8tnj | -tH, , to
® cca HP4i3 , hppreciated 1 it requires famil
iarity with the partite; and, as you know,
Mr. Editor, a story loses much of its
point in being read instead of heard. The
facts, however, can be vouched for, and
are at your service, if you think they
will either amuse your readers or enlight
en the Constitution.
At a camp meeting near Blunt’s Town,
when the Millerite excitement was at its
height, a wag who was entirely in the
secret, produced an egg which his mother-
in-law (whose especial duty was to look
after the hens) bad herself taken from
the nest. It had plainly written on it,
“at the full of the next moon the millen
nium will have come; Christ will reign
on earth and appear with a flamiDg sord.’
This egg was scrupulously examined by
the hundreds present, and such a revival
and excitement as it produced had never
before been witnessed in the county.
There was wailing and gnashing of teeth,
fiddles, which in those days lingered on
the outskirts of the camp ground, with
whiskey bottles innumerable, were con
signed to the flowing waters of the Chat
tahoochee, which at that point becomes
the Apalachicola river. Moumerspressed
upon the preacher, converts were as thick
as “the leaves of valambrosa;” everybody
was rushing for a front seat in the taber
nacle, to the infinite amusement of the
wag who had perpetrated the joke!
About this time, an old woman, more
cautious than the rest, knelt down and
held the egg between her failing vision
aud the noonday sun, and assisted by an
overwrought and excited imagination,
she thought die saw in the yolk of the egg,
which was somewhat “addled,” the Lord
on a golden horse with a flaming sword.
She cried the news out aloud. Dozens of
persons equally excited took the egg and,
holding it in the same position, likewise
saw the miracle. The writing the wag
knew all about, but “the Lord on a gol
den horse with a flaming sword,” was not
in the programme ! He became alarmed
lest a judgment was banging over him, to'
punish his levity ou so sacred a subject
He raised the egg excitedly, held it up
between His vision and the sun, and by.
degrees sank on his knees stammerin'
•Lord I. Lord! pardon a poor sinner
and begging to be prayed for, did in very
truth that day become a member of the
church.
The excitement kept on increasing; the
sinners were converted by hundreds, until
a temporary check was put to the revival,
by some fellow crying out: “Boys! boys
take courage; there am’t nothin' in it.
Sword is spelled s-o-r-d on that egg, in
stead of s-w-o-r-d.” After this there
seemed to be a cessation of converts, much
to the discomfort of the several exhort-
ers, when one of them came down with a
sockdolloger, and exclaimed, “Brothers
and sisters! shove this devil ont that
comes among us to break up the good
work. Satan entered Paradise in the
shape of a sarpent, and he is here to-day
the
be person of -
Suppose Web
ster does spell sword with a w; do you
reckon he begins to know as well how to
spell as the Lord does ? I tell you that w
is nothing but a human contraption, and
the Devil is among us; heed him not 1
heed him not!”
The argument was unanswerable; con
versions were renewed, and the Calhoun
county camp meeting did the work effi
ciently.
How was the writing done? Cover an
egg with wax, then with acid, trace any
letters you desire, the acid will eat into
the shell, rub the wax off and put the egg
in the nest, and you can have npon it
just what you please, either the name of
“E. Gresham,” or that “the Capital shall
remain in Atlanta,” or anything else that
suits your fancy. It is proper to make
this explanation, or MUledgeville and
Atlanta may both be “laying eggs” indi
cative of the proper location for the Seat
of Government of “the Empire State of
the South.” “Truth-Teller.”
The Horrors of War.
A a Episode im the Husoo-Tarkiih Campain
oflBU.
m opposing Russian and
lurkrah armies stood facing each other
on opposite banks of the Danube.
Daring the-night between the 8th and
9th of September the Turks succeeded
by makings feint, and so attracting the
Russians to a spot some three miles be
low the Teal 1 - * -
ing a force oi two thousand men and
four guns across the river,a short dis
tance above Ginrgeva The first at
tempt of the Russians to drive them in
to tho river was sucoeeafnlly withstood •
reinforcements were rapidly broueht
er^m theright to the left bSt
tfal finally thirty thousand men and
r no.iKeo\aiiU,
farther and drive baick the Russian
army, whioh had fallen back into an
intrenched position, was, however, re-;
pojwiifri'fli? Turks themselves, being
obtigec^after a time to construct in-
men ta, to withstand the counter
attscks directed against them.
Unable to drive back the invading
farce, the Russians desisted from any
further active measures against it, bid,
bringing a strong flotilla of gunboats
np the Danube to prevent supplies be
ing carried across the river into the
Turkish camp on the left bank, they
quietly waited events. The provision
of the Tnrltish force, thns completely
isolated, unable to advance because of
the Russian force in front of it, unable
to retreat because of the flotilla which
effectually prevented any bridi
thrown across the river, soon began toi
run .short. The weather became cold;
butlhere was fuel with which to kin
die a fire.
Under these circumstances the suf
ferings of the men were very great.
Forborne time there was horseflesh,
bat it had to be eaten raw, as even the
tent-poles had been cut up and burned.
Hundreds died daily, and their com
rades had not the strength to bury them.
Disease was consequently soon added
to famine, so that when finally, on the
8th of December, peace was concluded,
but 4,000 men, are described as being
bat living skeletons with scarce suffi
cient strength to stand upright, were
left out of the 30,000 who three months
before had crossed the river.
A Woman Frays that the Orig
inal Death Sentence be Car
ried Ont.
Dreams.
An article in the Galaxy on dreams,
by Mr. Lewis, presented some novel
theories. The result of a great number
ef experiments are held to sustain the
following facts: Speaking in a low,
monotonous tone dose to the ears of a
sleeper will almost invariably cause
him to dream of terrible adventures on
water, such as shipwreck and drownn-
ing. Singing or playing on musical in
struments induces dream ofdead friends
funerals, and the like. Worrisome
dream are often caused by sleeping with
the arms over the head. Mr. Lewis does,
not believe that somnambulism is often
caused by weight of trouble on the mind
and he combats the idea that any great
proportion of dreams are the result of
waking trouble. He thus describes
experiments showing that they are
bnt flashes across the brain: “While
one watched a sleeper and another the
clock, a third londly slammed the blind
of a window about ten feet away. The
effect was almost instantaneous. The
man Bprang up at the sound, looked
around in alarm and then exclaimed:
Thank God that it was only a dream.’
He had dreamed of being on acrowd-
ed street in front of a building which
the crowd declared unsafe, but still lin
gered near it. The dreamer tried to
elbow his way long but they jeered and
laughed at him and held him there.
He begged and entreated, coaxed and
threatened bnt they held him there,
and the building toppled over on him,
the shock breaking his dream. It
seemed certian to us that he had dream
ed the entire dream in a second; while
the time seemed a long half hour to
ti- i; but to place the question beyond
pule we Indulged in seven dr rtjifefifc
:erent experiments. Sometimes we
let a weight fall to the floor,or struck a
chair with aBtudL'ah^^gmnhwu dfmk
medtheblind. In every instance the
Bleeper dream ofsome starting adventure
and awoke with a start; and no dream
asted overa minute.”
Columbus, June 28.—One of the most
singular cases, in the annals of criminal
law was decided to-day by Judge Bing
ham in the Common Fleas Coart. Some
years ago Mrs. Sarah M. Victor was con
victed in the .courts of Cuyahoga county
of murder in the first degree, having
poisoned her brother, and. was sentenced
to be banged. The sentence was cemms-
t> f ted by the Governor -to imprisonment for
life. Since that time Mrs. Victor has
been confined in the Ohio Penitentiary.
The prisoner grew tired of life nnder such
circumstances and spent many hours in
solitary confinement in constant weeping.
In January, 1876, she made application
.in the courts of this city to have the orig-
*inal sentence carried out, on the ground
that she had not consented to the com
mutation. The case wes without parallel
in history, and presented itself to the
court iu the shape of a very knotty prob
lem. Judge Bingham, after having the
matter under advisement for eighteen
months, rendered an opinion, holding
that Mrs. Victor is in law an escaped
prisoner after conviction and issued an
order to the Sheriff for her delivery to
the county officers to await action by the
courts of the county. Mrs. Victor will
be taken to Cleveland soon.
Attorney General Little, adviser of the
{Warden of the penitentiary, subsequently
made application to the Supreme Court
for leave to file a petition in error, which
was granted and a stay of execution of
Judge Bingham’s decision ordered till
the case can he finally heard. Mrs. Vic
tor will accordingly remain in the peni
tentiary. The opinion of high talent is
to the effect that Judge Bingham’s order
will not be sustained by the Supreme
Court. The case excited great interest
here. _
Motive of Hilton’s Discourtesy
to Seligman.
The New York correspondent of the
Telegraph and Messenger has the follow
ing to say in reference to the Hilton-
Seligman affair;
“In all this metropolis, in all this State,
not one paper has been found willing to
forego the chance for buncombe, ana to
say that Hilton wanted to advertise his
Grand Union Hotel os free of a class of
patronage which had become obnoxious
to the traveling public, and therefore se
lected the biggest mark he could get, and
publicly insulted him. Now, the fact L,
that the Grand Union at Saratoga had
become an unpleasant hotel; that rich
coarse people had flocked there hr num
bers, and drawn with them immense co
teries of humbler and coarser followers;
that some of these were Jews, and that
many were net, bnt that in the popular
mind the thing was classed Jewl and that
the hotel occupied a most inferior posi
tion in comparison with its stately rival,
the United States Hotel. Under these
circumstances Mr. Hilton could easily
have abated the nnisance by refusing ad
mission to the coarse or by giving them
undesirable quarters, bnt that would not
advertise him, so he fulminated his edict,
and when the leading Jewish banker of
the country came, the answer was that no
Jew need apply.”
The Cincinnati Brewers and Sa
loon Keepers.'
St Louis Republican.]
The Cincinnati brewers and the Sa-
loon-Keepers Bank have got at logger-
heads because the brewers want
to sell their beer for 82
a keg, and the saloon-keepers in
sist on paying the old price of 82.50.
That is a strange cause for difference,
bht the point, is, the saloon-keepers
they would retail-
lassev for five cents,
"the result they apprehend
> to pass if the wholesale price
. But in the meantime, the
. brewers comtflaih that there is a large
overstock of beer, which will never be
worked off unless the people can he
tempted to increase their consumption,
and claim the right to sell as cheap as
they pleasal
CONTRACT RATES OF AJ?2tfTISINti
One aquMO'ono monlh_.„ 2 4 00
One squaro litre* monthj»„„„. 8 09
One square six mnnth. u c3
toe square twelve months..^.. , JC m
o°e month. 10 00
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The Oriental Business.
Be trait Free pnu.]
A good citizen of Crohan street was’
Kntl^m^ 60 ^ 61 ^ 7 of a S°°d Persian
gentleman who always walked about
with a smile on his face- When the
Peman was asked why he always look-
ed so happy when other men looked
sad, he replied:
sunshine
surrounded by shad-
It was very nice in the Persian, and
the Crohan street man said he’d be han
ged if he couldn’t out smile a Persian
? r eke walking around on two
le £?- He at once began to smile at his
wife.- She stood if for a few minutes,
and then observed:
“Whatiirthe matter, William got the
shine to your darkened soulj’ he repli
ed. . n
She wanted him to understand that
fifteen minutes at the woodpile would
help her more than all the grins.he
could grin in a straight week, and when
he went into the kitchen to smile some
sunshine'at the.hired girl thd wife fol
lowed him and rinsed a row that put
dinner three-qnarterB of an hour behind
hand. However, one can’t get the hang
of Oriental business in a day, and thin
man tried it again on the street car as
he came down town yesterday. Oppo
site him sat on old woman with a bas
ket, and he undertook to smile the
shadows from her heart. She watched
him for two or three minutes growing
mad all the time, and presently she
asked:
“Do you think you know me, that
yon are grinning across the aisle like
circus baboon?”
“I smile, madam, because be
cause” he stammered, forgetting
what the Persian said “I smile becase”
“You are grinning becanse I’ve got
sore eyes!” she shouted.
“No* madam. I smile that I that
I”.
“1,11 not stand it,” she exclaimed and
she hammered him with the basket
until he escaped off the platform.
‘ Now grin over there, will yon,” she
called after him as she shook the bas
ket in the air.
“The Persian who went around smil
ing was a fool, and I’m his first cousin,”
growled the man, and he quit smiling
and picked a fight with a haroess-mak-
Tobacco And Tar Currency
In a work lately published by Rev
Dr. Slaughter, of Virginia, about men
and customs in the old days of the com
mon-wealth, it is stated that in coloni
al times many acts of Assembly were
passed regulating the cnltureof tobacco
and one office of the early church vest
ries was to appoint respectable free
holders to connt tobacco plants in each,
parish. The salaries of ministers and
civil officers were paid in tobacco, and
it or notes representing it in the ware
houses were the currency of the country.
Dr. Slaughter states that parishes were
known as “Orinoco” and “Sweet-scented
parishes, according to the kind of tobac
co grown in them. A “sweet-scented”
S ansh was worth much more than an
rinoco parish. It is quaintly remoked
that a minister’s tobacco was worth
much less than other like bulk of tobac
co because it was so mixed. Thus it
seems that the clergy have not always
had the first fruits of their parishion
ers in modem times. Whenever the
flock could fleece the shepherd they
hove rarely failed in that performance.
Another fact stated by Dr. Slaughter
may not be generarly known: that to-
wards the North Carolina line where
little or no tobacco was then grown, the
minister was paid in tar, pitch and pork.
The pine tree and its fruits were then
subject of legislation. Tar was once in
great demand for tarring the roofs of
public and private buildings.—Baltimoe
Sun.
The Suez Canal.
The Suez Canal cost about 894,000,
000 gold. It is 92 miles long, and too
narrow to let two large vessels pass
without switchings and sidings. You
it has passed vessels of nearly 26 feet
draft and 430 feet long. The first year
it was opened to general trade, 1870,
only 491 vessel went through, represen
ting a tonnage of about 437,000. But
in 1875 it passed 1,496 vessels, 76 per
cent of which were British and the ton
nage had risen to nearly 3,000,000. The
canal’s receipts amounted, in the last
year named, to 8,777,160 gold and for
1876 were nearer 86,000,000 at the rate
of increase. John Bull, regardless of
small consistency, no sooner saw the
“ditch” a snccess than he bought in a
lump the Khedive’s own share nearly
one-half. Of the whole, or 176,702-
Thus the Suez Canaal earn above six
percent gross, but its earnings in an-
others sense are incalculable. The Brit
ish Empire—that disconnected series
of conquests extending through two
centuries—is, by this “ditch,” consoli
dated and made intelligible, and Asia
is reduced to be aBritish;Province,Bom-
bay being little more than two weeks
by the fastest steamer from London.
The Suez Canal possesses, besides a
huge grant ef land and is building tip
cities on its banks and at its termini,
and leasing water frontB.
Poet Wade.
The lines written by Ben Wade when
he was young, on Napoleon Bonaparte,
have reappeared. Here are some of
them:
Maria she »«ep* for her Saiband departed—
And she dream* when abe ileepe,and «be wakc B
broken-hearted;
And whenorer.be looks on thepalamoon Plana
Sha eight as aba think* on tb* isle of St. Helena
Poor Maria 'ha ha* hot one consolation.
That's the 701m* King of Rome what's tho hope
of the notion,
A rorr eniieea child, fnU of manly beamy;
Religion and wit, intelligence sad duty.
Hard wae hia fsto to bo thna separated
From his fond loving wH* and tho child h*fore
lUted;
Imprisoned on a rook by tho wioked English
nation.
Who never g-v# a thought of hit married situa
tion _
The Cincinnati Jews take the exclu
sion of Seligman from the Grand Union
hotel at Saratoga very much to heart.
Forty-six Jewish firms there hove plcdg-
tl.emselves henceforto to entertain no
business relations with the house of A.
T. Stewart & Co.
The Canadians get their lager for
three cents a glass.